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Cheers Elephant release new album Like Wind Blows Fire

CATCHIEST SONG IN SO LONG.

Cheers Elephant – “Leaves” [MP3]

Cheers Elephant, a quartet from Philadelphia, dropped their latest full length, Like Wind Blows Fire, today. It’s been streaming in full on Spinner, but for some reason this band hasn’t taken over the pop world. Hopefully this release propels the fellas to stardom, […]

Lee

[MP3] Arc in Round: “Hallowed”

What’s with this thematic time of the year thing being totally off with artists’ releases? A couple days ago we got some new tracks from Wintermitts, and now we’re getting a helluva dark song from Arc in Round called “Hallowed.” This would have been a perfect release on, say, October 31. But noooo, […]

Lee

Nestled Like Spoons

Nestled Like Spoons is Phil Marsalona, a 22 year old from Philadelphia. It’s evident from his experimental electronic music that he’s been deeply influenced by the biggest stars of his time, including Radiohead and the like. Everything is self-recorded and released, and he flies solo for all performances. Three cheers for one man […]

Jesse

[Stars on C-30] Plustapes and Treetop Sorbet

Tape labels are abundant these days, as are new cassette releases, and Stars on C-30 includes reviews of some of these releases, the occasional band or label profile, and a look at the culture surrounding cassettes.

In any musical genre there are quiet leaders, bands who help define a sound but never become […]

Lee

Summer Fiction

So, funny story. Well, sort of. I was stalking Twitter, as usual (what the hell else do you do on Twitter?), when I see our good buddy Dave Rawkblog absolutely GUSHING about this random band, Summer Fiction. With the respect I have for Dave’s music taste (and more-than-occasional distaste – if you read […]

Lee

Luftwaffe

From the indiest of the indie comes Luftwaffe, a band that does everything themselves, in the hottest summer air (without air conditioning, obvz), and releases all their hard work for free. If it makes them happy, then it certainly makes me happy, because I’ve fallen in love with their sublime pop music.

The […]

Lee

[MP3s] Golden Ages: "Everything Will Be Alright" + "Be Cool"

Perfect time for these Philadelphia fellas to come back into the mix as their genre of spaced-out psychedelic electronic pop is making its biggest run, well, ever. I’m not one who has been liking too much of that material (disclaimer: I do like some, and Jamie likes A LOT), but these Golden Ages […]

Lee

Clean Equations’ sublime dream-pop

Clean Equations could easily be Messy Equations with seven band members. But in the age of the indie-pop collective (at least for me), they pull off a solid and tempered group dynamic. Musical hysteria be damned, you’re losing in the big bands battle!

Minimalist percussion and layers upon layers of rippled keys and […]